Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-23
ohio's Wind Jammer.


Whatever may be the individual
views concerning the advisability OF
the order directing the return Of the
rebel flags land it is practically unanI-
mous,) all must unite in the conclu-
sion that the man who made the most
thorough and symmetrical donkey of
himself was J. Benson Foraker, by one
of the mysterious DEGREES of Provi-
dence, Governor of the State of Ohio.
There is always something grotesquely
dramatic about Foraker's assininity.-
He is ever endeavoring to pose before
the public as hero, but the effect is
always spoiled by tendency to overdo1
it. 1t was all right for him to get mad
and protest against the order, but there
was no occasion for him to rave and
tear his hair and initiate the monkey
climbing the pole. There are few
people in this State who were as dra-
matically indignant as the Governor,
and he placed himself at the head of
these perspiring patriots, and would
probably have marched upon the
National Capital in solid phalanx of
lunacy had not the occasion for their
anger been removed. These fellows
will cool off gradually, but they will
finally, perhaps, be enabled toappreci-
ate the extent of their foolishness and
subside completely. All but Fo ker.
Benny is in state of perpetual "
fare with common sense and is beyon
relief His declaration that mo flags
will be removed from Ohio while 1 am
Governor" sounds very pretty, and its
author expects that it will go thunder
ing down the corridors of the ages
alongside such patriotic epigrams as
~ regret that have but one life to
give my country" "Millions for de-
fense, but not one cent for tribute, :"
etc.; but it won't. The Governor for
gets that these flags at Columbus are
not in any sense the property of the
State, but belong to the National Gov
ernment, and if Congress should order
the Governor to turn them over he
would have to do it. The Governor
has been credited with mediocre
knowledge of the law, but he has been
so busy during the past few years, pos
ing before the people in the role of hero
that he has forgotten all about it. II
he had not been so excessively indig-
nant hewould probably have known
better than to have directed some one
Ill WdSIlluBIOII, WuO1l i6 SuppOSeu u
be as great a fool as himself, to apply
for an injunction restraining the Presi
dent from carrying out his order. HaC
he applied for advice to some adoles
cent law student he might have learn
ed that an injunction can not liz
against the President of the United
States, and that the only recourse is i'm
parchment. The peculiar variety O
Indignation that affected the Governor
seems to have struck number of idiots
throughout the State, and the eXecu
tive Office at Columbus has been flooded
with dispatches from obscure individu
ais everywhere whose ambition is t,
secure notoriety. Some of these badl,
overshot the mark. One dispatch of
peculiar bellicose tone, from yelling
ton, was signed Colonel A. w. Down
and 800 old soldiers" The people o
Wellington are asking, "Who is thi
Colonel Downs?" They don't know
him. And as for the 1900 old soldiers
there are not that many ex-soldiers il
: all of Lorain county. The Governo
5 and his army of beligerents should b
; nlaced ON ice.